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Release Window:

The Release Date for Spring ’21 will depend on your instance of Salesforce, but the main dates are:

Jan 16^th 2021,

Feb 6^th2021,

Feb 12^th 2021,

Feb13th 2021.

You can go to Salesforce Trust and click on your instance name and click ‘Maintenances’ It will give you date for the new release for your org.

Spring ’21 Sandbox Preview

Preview Sandbox instances will be updated on Jan 8th 2021. 

Non-Preview Instances will update on

Spring ’21 Pre-Release Org

On 10th December 2020 these orgs officially came out, Access link.

Spring ’21 Release Notes

Hurray!! New destination for salesforce Release Notes is  Salesforce Help.

We now have a pre-release org

Spring ’21 pre-release org is a sneak peek into the new platform

New Release Updates for Administrators

Here are the Top Admin features you can checkout now which will take you to the new level

Manual Sharing Records 

We can share records and manage records shares through the manual sharing added to the interface. Previously we had to go to salesforce classic to share records with specific users or group o users. Manual sharing is only available for accounts, contacts, opportunities, cases, leads and custom objects

Now create more Roles 

The maximum number of roles in the existing org is only 500. Now in Spring ’21 onwards we can create up to 5000 roles, but in order to increase the limit, we need to contact Salesforce support.

Guest Users Permission Update 

For now, on the guest users will have only read and create object permissions. That means, in Spring ’21 onwards Salesforce is removing View all, modify all, Edit and Delete object permissions on all objects for guest users in new and existing orgs.

Opportunity Product Relationship

Now you will be able to create relationships to the Opportunity Product object

More supports added to Dynamic Actions

New Release Updates for Developers

Changed Lightning Web Components

Take a look your old components have something new.

lightning:datatable

new property – typeAttribute, for currency and percent data types.

• step—Granularity of the value while inline editing, specified as a positive floating-point number, like 001. Use anywhen granularity is not a concern. This value changes to 0.01.

lightning:formattedUrl

This attribute has changed.

• target—For Salesforce mobile app, the _blanktarget value now behaves similar to the _self target and opens the link inside the app when possible, instead of in a web browser.

lightning:icon

The component now lazy loads the SLDS icon you pass with the iconName attribute, this improves overall performance of this component. The generated markup of a component can change, so don’t depend on it for custom styling and functional hooks. The delay in loading can impact your code if you query the icon’s markup during initial rendering.

lightning:input

Following are new attributes.

• selectionStart—Specifies the index of the first character to select in the input element. This attribute is supported only for text type. Use with selectionEndto programmatically select a string.
• selectionEnd—Specifies the index of the last character to select in the input element. This attribute is supported only for text type. Use with selectionStartto programmatically select a string.

Changed attribute

• label—Supports hidden custom labels for assistive devices. Specify the labeland variant=”label-hidden” attributes and use aria-Labelledby to reference a label. The component doesn’t render an HTML <label>

Hey Hey Hey! New Components

lightning:map

This attribute is new.

• options—Specify Boolean properties, to enable or disable controls on the map.

1. draggableenables dragging to pan the map. Default: true.
2. zoomControlenables zooming controls. Default: true.
3. scrollwheelenables zooming with the mouse wheel. Default: true.
4. disableDefaultUIdisables zooming and choosing the map layer. Default: false.
5. disableDoubleClickZoomdisables zooming with a mouse double-click. Default: false.

• Following properties are new for the mapMarkers attribute.

1. type—Defines colored shapes to mark a location. The available shape types are Circle, Rectangle, and Polygon.
2. radius—Defines the size of a Circletype in meters.
3. bounds—Defines the corners of a Rectangletype in coordinates for north, south, east, and west.
4. paths—Defines the segments of a Polygontype in pairs of coordinates.
5. mapIcon—Defines a custom SVG icon for a marker.
6. path—Defines the SVG path for mapIcon.
7. scale—Defines the scale for mapIconfor appropriate sizing.
8. Styling properties for typeand mapIcon include: strokeColor, strokeOpacity, strokeWeight, fillColor, and fillOpacity.

lightning:navigation

This pageReference type is new.

• standard__managedContentPage—Enables a component to use a pageReference to navigate to a specific CMS content page in an Experience Builder site.

lightning:textarea

This attribute is new.

• autocomplete—Text area fields can be auto filled, based on your browser’s support of the feature. The value of the attribute passes through to the browser.

New and Changed Objects

More Access through these new and changed standard objects.

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